A patch of snow in the Scottish Highlands dubbed the Sphinx typically lingers year-round, staying frozen through the summer. But it has melted away for the fourth consecutive year — only the ...

So Dial and colleagues added either extra water or nutrient-rich fertilizer to different patches of snow on Harding Icefield, a 1,900-square-kilometer frozen expanse in southern Alaska.

Due to a good portion of Lake Erie being completely frozen over ... shift from northwest to west today, the snow will eventually scurry off. A patch of higher pressure will move in over us ...